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Boys Town, Nebraska. Boys Town was founded on December 12, 1917, [1] as an orphanage for boys. Originally known as "The City of Little Men", the organization was begun by Edward J. Flanagan, a Roman Catholic priest, while he worked in the Diocese of Omaha.
The village of Boys Town was established on December 12, 1917 as the headquarters of Father Flanagan's Boys' Home (), founded by Father Edward J. Flanagan. [6]The village houses the national headquarters of Boys Town, homes for the youth served and the families that care for them, a church, a museum (The Hall of History), a school, a post office, a fire station, visitor’s center, cafe and ...
Flanagan was moved by the plight of youth. In 1917, he founded a home for homeless boys in Omaha. Bishop Jeremiah James Harty of the Diocese of Omaha had misgivings, but endorsed Flanagan's experiment of housing and education. Because the downtown facilities were inadequate, Flanagan established Boys Town, ten miles west of Omaha, in 1921 ...
Boys Town was released on VHS by MGM on March 29, 1993, and re-released on VHS on March 7, 2000. On November 8, 2005, it was released on DVD as a part of the "Warner Brothers Classic Holiday Collection", a three-DVD set which also contains Christmas in Connecticut and the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol , and as an individual disc.
Boys Town, Nebraska, a suburb of Omaha, USA; Boy's Town (prostitution), Mexican US-border district with legal prostitution; Boyztown, a gay red-light district in ...
Boys Town Medical Center, Boys Town, Nebraska, c. 1930 – 1945. The Fort Omaha Hospital was opened in 1878 to care for soldiers wounded during the Indian Wars. Built along with several other notable buildings at the Fort, the hospital operated through the 1940s. [6] The Ford Hospital in Omaha was built in 1916. It was a privately operated ...
The 1935 winner of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing was named Omaha. Omaha's Boys Town was made famous by 1938 the Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney movie Boys Town. In 1939, Omaha hosted the world premiere of the film Union Pacific and the accompanying three-day celebration drew 250,000
The Omaha–Fremont Combined Statistical Area has a population of 1,058,125 (2020 estimate). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Approximately 1.5 million people reside within the Greater Omaha area, within a 50 mi (80 km) radius of Downtown Omaha .